Harold J. Laski: “There is, moreover, in Burke a Platonic idealism which made him, like later thinkers of the school, regard existing…”

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.

If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.